Archive for October, 2017
Happy Alaska Day!
• October 18, 2017 • 2 CommentsPosted in Artists, book art, children's books, colonialism, FAP, FDR, Federal One, forestry, Francis Xavier Luca, graphic arts, Great Depression, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, Philippines, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World's fairs
Tags: "pay streak attractions", Alaska, Alaska Art Project, Alaska drawings (booklet), Alaska Territory, Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (1909: Seattle Washington), Carl R. Saxild, Eskimos, Federal Art Projects, Forestry building, Glaciers, gold rush, gold strikes, human zoos, Igorrotes, indigenous peoples, International exhibitions, international expositions, Inuit, Jerome Roth, Midways, Paintings, polar bears, postcards, President Andrew Johnson, prospectors, Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), Russia, Seattle (Washington), Secretary of State William Henry Steward, totem poles, totems, U.S. Court House (Anchorage), Wilderness (1920), Works Progress Administration
Return of the Natives
• October 12, 2017 • 1 CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, colonialism, curators, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, exhibit cases, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian-FIU library exhibitions
Tags: Advertisements, American Indians, Blackfeet Indians, Christopher Columbus, colonials, Color lithography, commercial art, cultural appropriation, Empire route, Eric Simon, Everglades National Park, Exoticism, feather headresses, Francis Xavier Luca, Glacier National Park, Grand Canyon National Park, Great Northern Railroad, Great Nothern Railway, Hopi Indians, Indians, indigenous peoples, Jamestown Exposition (1907), National Parks, Native Americans, Native Americans America the Beautiful: American Indians and the Promotion of National Parks (Wolfsonian library installation), native peoples, Navajo Indians, Oglala Sioux, Ojibwa, Peace pipes, Pocahontas, product advertising, Pueblo Indians, Railroads, Red Cloud (1822-1909), Red Cloud Stogies, Santa Fe Line, Schlegel Litho., Scotten Dillon (Detroit MI), Selling the Golden Leaf: Exoticism in Tobacco Advertising (Wolfsonian library installation), Seminole Indians, smoking, Temple Beth Am Day School, Tobacco, tobacco advertising, tobacco products, Treaty of Fort Laramie (1869), Woodland Indians, World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago)
Meet the Fokkers: KLM Founded This Day in History
• October 6, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, airplanes, colonial tourism, curators, exhibit cases, exhibitions, Far East, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, posters, rare books and special collections library, Silvia Barisione, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: aeronautics, air shows, Albert Plesman, aviation, Aviators, Batavia, Dutch East Indies, Eerste Luchtverkeer Tentoonstelling Amsterdam (ELTA), FIrst Aviation Exhibition Amsterdam (1919), Fokker aircraft, international travel, Jakarta, Java, Jerry Shaw, KLM, Koninklijke Luchtvaart Mastschappij (KLM), posters, Queen Wilhelmina, Royal Dutch Air Lines, Silvia Barisione, The Netherlands
New Deal Ephemera
• October 5, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, Alabama, American left artists, Blue eagle, CCC, Christopher DeNoon, Civil Rights Movement, Civilian Conservation Corps, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, displays, FIU, FIU community, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, Great Depression, History Department, Hugo Gellert, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), International Labor Defense (ILD), leftist artists, Leonard A. Lauder, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, NRA, NYA, persuasive arts, racism, rare books and special collections library, Rural Electrification Administration (REA), stickers, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, visual thinking strategies, VTS, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: 1936, Advertisements, aGatherin', Blue eagle (thunderbird) campaign, Broadsides, bulletins, calendars, campaign stickers, capitalism, Chain gangs, Christopher DeNoon, civil rights, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Clara Helena Palacio Luca, Communists, Comrade Gulliver, Diane de Blois, Display cards, electric chairs, ephemera, Ephemera Society of America, fans, FDR, Federal Music Project (FMP), Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Gabriel Over the White House, Great Depression, Hurricane Irma, jobs, Junior Seminar, Kara Accettola, Leonard A. Lauder, Little Sages Books, lynchings, Lynton Gardiner, Martijn F. Lecoultre, Movie Makers (periodical), National Recovery Administration (NRA), National Youth Administration (NYA), Negro Songs of Protest (song book), New Deal, Pamphlets, pennants, Photomontage, portfolio plates, posters, Public Works Administration (PWA), racism, rare books, rare periodicals, Robert Dalton Harris, Rosie the Riveter, Rural Electrification Administration (REA), Scottsboro Boys, Scottsboro Trial (Alabama), Second World War, sharecropping, Sheet music covers, Socialists, song books, Sound recordings, Supreme Court rulings, Swastikas, Tamiami Trail, tanks (military science), The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, voting patterns, Women war workers, work, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
FAULT LINES THROUGH TIME
• October 3, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in Balochistan, Earthquakes, Frederic A. Sharf, India, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Pakistan, Panama Canal, Quetta
Tags: Baluchistan, British Army, colonialism, Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interoceanique, earthquakes, India, Mexico, natural disasters, Pakistan, Panama, Panama Canal, Quetta
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